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Has dabbled on an individual basis with pardons. but kushner has access to real power every day, and yet lets get into the facts. here are just three of the prison reform bills that are talked about regularly. the smartest sentencing act, sentencing reform and corrections act and as he juchtd mentioned the first step act. if this is kushners first priorities, if he has any access to the president, have they gotten to congress or floor votes to test their support? no, none of them have ever gotte...

Intelligence officials. and showing his true colors, which are not based on humanity, empathy or justice for freedom of the press. >> dorian, where do we go from here? robin wright, the great journalist on npr. the question she has, wheres the body? a big open question looking at preliminary results from the saudis. what happens next as you see it? >> i think we need all of the evidence to come out. i think we need actually journalists to be able to do their jobs unlike mr. khashoggi, unfortunat...

The big question. you have to wonder if that played a role in them unsealing this case today, because maybe now this provides him the opportunity to bring it up. we know hes going to be in moscow for several days. hes going to be meeting with russian officials, though it is still an open question whether or not hes going to meet with vladimir putin, while he is there. they have not commented on that. but this does give him an opportunity to bring this up and confront them about it. the question ...

Now if you look at the latest cnn poll, ted cruz is a ahead by a healthy margin 52 to 45 and orourke was closing in more than that a couple months ago. the question is whether or not ted cruz is pulling ahead and cant be domestic orourke cant catch him or not and orourke is trying to bank on the fact that he has this national notoriety, that he has this unbelievably huge war chest, wolf, $38 million just in the last quarter, thats record setting plus-plus so its an open question whether or not t...

Nuclear talks, slow walk nuclear talks. it seems the question here is this more advantage north korea, is it more advantage u.s.? who is really coming out ahead with these slow and fuzzy, nebulous talks? >> well, both sides wanted to declare victory after the singapore summit. president trump and kim jong-un touting the success there. they had essentially come to an agreement theyd work toward denuclearization. the world has not seen any concrete steps toward denuclearization since then and youv...

And this round seems to go to republicans. their pick for the u.s. proem court brett kavanaugh was sworn in on saturday as the newest justice. kavanaughs confirmation shifts the high court to the right for the foreseeable future. but now that its over, our phil mattingly takes a look at whats next and the mood in washington, d.c. >> reporter: brett kavanaugh has been confirmed. brett kavanaugh has been sworn in. brett kavanaugh is now a justice on the supreme court. its whats lying in the wake o...

Republican base, and we didnt think of it. i was talking to two of my political advisers yesterday about the adventure that these guys by their tactics have given to us going into these red state competitive races. and were pretty excited. they managed to deliver the only thing we had not been able to figure out how to do which was to get our folks fired up. the other side is obviously fired up. they have been all year. >> if you listen closely to the last point, mcconnell pointed out the democr...

Politics at the university of birmingham, live from birmingham, england. thanks for your time. lets talk about the topics that hang in the balance. topics from immigration, affirmative action, womens reproductive rights. is there a chance that any member could be that middle swing vote? >> the question is whether we have a swing vote. youll see a lot of analysis now that whereas we talked about anthony kennedy as being someone who on occasions would side with the moderates, about 20% of the time...

They were angry, were disappointed, who acknowledged they arent very happy with one another right now. its a question i asked mcconnell. he said the country has been through worst times and the country will move through this and the senate as well. is this a rock-bottom moment, a moment where people take a step back and figure cooling down may be the better option? right now it seems unlikely. one senior gop aide i talked to yesterday said just bluntly, its only going to get worse from here. not...

High challenge for the court to take on, but i think the court may be stripping away state gun control laws. they may be strip away environmental regulations. they may be roll back campaign finance law. and i think they may even be looking at, at least if we look at judge kavanaughs record, expanding presidential powers and indeed possibly insulating donald trump and his family from not only the question of impeachment but also any criminal charges at the state level. in theory if not in practic...